The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

There was a man who came into our newsroom who would just plop himself down at an unused desk. He was talking about seeing an Indians game as a kid “at the old stadium.”

Me: “I saw many games at Cleveland Stadium.”

Him: “Not the new one! League Park!”

He still called Cleveland Stadium the “new one.”

 

MLB stadium I saw games at that no longer exist:

Cleveland Municipal Stadium

Tiger Stadium

Original Yankee Stadium

New Yankee Stadium I

Metropolitan Stadium

The Metrodome

DC Stadium

Mile High Stadium

Kingdome

Candlestick Park

Exhibition Stadium

Veterans Stadium

Coming up next, the Oakland Coliseum.

And a number of demolished triple-A fields.

 

Now I’m missing Tiger Stadium all over again. I’m a Cleveland fan but grew up near Toledo, so that was where I went to watch the Indians play.

 

I have seen MLB games in all those except Metropolitan Stadium and Exhibition Stadium, but I have also seen games at Connie Mack Stadium (Shibe Park), Shea Stadium, Baltimore Municipal Stadium, Comiskey Park, Three Rivers Stadium, Riverfront Stadium, whatever the name of the original Texas ballpark was, and Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

 

So jealous you saw a game at Shibe Park.
I think the Polo Grounds would be my white whale of time traveling to a ballpark. I was obsessed with the dimensions of that place as a kid. I had a calendar of all the old parks and it looked unreal to me.

 

Shibe Park (I knew it as Connie Mack) was immortalized by one Phillies manager who said it was located in a neighborhood, "so tough they raffled off a new car with the cops still in it."

 

"Near Toledo" is definitely a movie to be made.

 

Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no no.

 

Love watching deGrom pitch. When he was at his best in his Cy Young years, you knew you were watching something special. As dominant as the best to ever do it.

The last few years it’s just an anxious feeling when he pitches because he’s had to leave early so often and has missed so much time.

Hope he can put together a majority of healthy seasons in Texas. But it doesn’t look promising.

 

Kris Bryant in right field for the Rockies. They're terrible and won't be any good while he's there. He got paid a lot to go to baseball purgatory.